Excerpt from Elementary Flora of the Northwest This book was written primarily on account of the great need for some such work in the schools of the Northwest. Geographically it covers Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and the coastal region of south western British Columbia. The usual limited spring flora omits so many plants that the user must know beforehand the name of the particular plant whose name he is seeking, in order that he may find by the index whether the book includes or omits it. This is absurd. Usually there is a species de scription, whose necessary brevity often makes it do equally well for a number of species not included. In this book the keys are complete so far as they go, except in. A very few genera of grasses, in which the limits are expressly stated. This will enable teachers to hand out for analysis plants they do not them selves know. This is specially desirable in the Northwest, where teachers may move to other schools only a hundred miles away and find a tremendous change in the flora. It is unreasonable in the Northwest to expect teachers of botany to know all the local plants, even though they may have specialized in the subject in an under graduate course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.